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Originally Posted by Linkster
Zango is a small part of a much larger problem - there are somewhere around 400 programs that do this same thing
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Time to form our own organization to combat these sorts of threats as they arise?
Could start with a group responsible for handling and verifying anonymous tips (seems to work well with the ASACP?), another group deals with technical/creative solutions to the threat, and a third disseminates information to all parties concerned about how to deal with threat.
Obviously this sort of problem isn't going to go away if/when Zango's tamed... so why not lay down the groundwork now and create a system which treats it as such? The collaboration of ideas here, now, is really refreshing, but a more permanent system might be more efficient in the long run.
I nominate myself as the official whipping boy!
Just gotta think about funding now... money is a great motivator, afterall.
And Jim I think you make a good point about not turning this into a money making scheme to exploit the surfers. It's not in our best interest to turn them off from our valiant efforts to make the web a safe and fun place because of short sighted thinking... like the people at Zango practice.
